In one of the most gruelling charity endurance challenges, the annual Oxfam TRAILWALKER Melbourne will see 700 teams of four walk or run 100km of Australian bush in a bid to raise $2.7 million for international aid agency Oxfam Australia’s work to help people in poverty.
Port-au-Prince: Three months after the catastrophic earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, an in-depth survey of over 1,700 Haitians shows people’s top priorities for reconstruction are jobs and schools.
This Fairtrade Fortnight (1-16 May), raise awareness about fair trade by holding a Fairtrade coffee break in your workplace, school or club. Find out more
More Australians are buying Fair Trade chocolate this Easter, according to international aid agency Oxfam Australia.
Sales of Fair Trade Easter chocolate through Oxfam’s shops across Australia are 64 per cent higher this year than last year, for the four weeks leading up to the Monday before Easter.
The statues of Haiti’s heroes who led the slave revolt centuries ago are no longer visible. The square overlooking the now destroyed Presidential Palace has become a mass of makeshift shelters where families of earthquake victims try to put their lives together. The new shanty town which has sprung up obscures those national symbols of tumultuous change and great hope.
A tiny tax on banks that could have a massive impact on the poor. Bill Nighy tells us how.
Oxfam understands that young people are our most powerful weapon in the long-running fight against poverty. Find out why
On March 12, film students from Haiti’s only film school Cine Institute in Jacmel, in partnership with Oxfam and FilmAid, asked Haitians about their priorities for the reconstruction of their country. Watch their short film to find out the results.
Life in a wheat-belt town hit hard by suicide is seen through the eyes of young people in a special Close the Gap photographic exhibition in Perth.
More than 30,000 people across Australia are today taking part in National Close the Gap Day (Thursday 25 March) to send a strong message to government to get its approach right on addressing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health crisis.